Tahini, the delicious sesame-based paste popular in the Middle East, has become the unlikely subject of a dispute over LGBTQ rights of Arab Israelis. The story started with food but is not ...

Chickpeas (garbanzo beans) are one of the earliest cultivated legumes. Remains of chickpeas from the Middle East have been ...

Instead of piling on the marshmallows, the cooks at Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street use two Middle Eastern pantry staples ...

Sesame seed was initially harvested in India around 5000 BCE, so tahini followed a similar route west to the Middle East -- although, in this case, it seems like tahini paste probably spread outward ...

“As a child, I would wait impatiently for my grandmother to pick snails in her garden and cook them for me the traditional way, with a tarator sauce (a tahini-based sauce),” he recall ...

The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we use two Middle Eastern pantry staples to boost the flavor of sweet potatoes. First, we coat the potato wedges with nutty tahini ...

Authors, cooks, and advocates of a plant-based lifestyle. One of our favourite cooks, Yotam Ottolenghi, has taught us how to weave our favourite sweet Middle Eastern flavours — such as cinnamon ...